1829 in birding and ornithology


 * Trocaz pigeon described by Karl Heineken
 * Death of Juan Ignacio Molina
 * Death of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
 * Auguste Drapiez publishes  Résumé d'ornithologie ou d'histoire naturelle des oiseaux 
 * Johann Georg Wagler writes descriptions of new bird species in Isis, oder Encyclopädische Zeitung  published by Lorenz Oken Some are: the russet-throated puffbird, the golden-fronted woodpecker, the pinnated bittern, the chestnut-colored woodpecker, the brown jay, the intermediate egret and the ladder-backed woodpecker
 * George Ord retires from business to devote his time to ornithology.
 * 1829-33 Admiral Sir Edward Belcher "Aetna " survey expedition to North and West Africa.
 * Julien François Desjardins, Charles Telfair, Wenceslas Bojer, and Jacques Delisse, take part in founding the Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Île Maurice